Alberto Cairo
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
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In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, episode 2: Ari Lamstein: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
Read their stories here:
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Good reminder to subscribe to Mother Jones:
1/ By now you've probably watched the 60 Minutes Bari Weiss spiked (archive.org/details/3mam...). It discusses how Venezuelans were sent to CECOT b/c of innocuous tattoos, a story that @nlanard.bsky.social and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social first broke open: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Good reminder to subscribe to Mother Jones:
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Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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the NYT and the Atlantic did this because (a) moral panics sell, and (b) their editors are bigots who don't really believe trans ppl should exist. 1
Yes, there are many others to blame — even more directly — but The Atlantic and The New York Times platformed and mainstreamed those voices in America, and now trans children and their families are paying the price.
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
the NYT and the Atlantic did this because (a) moral panics sell, and (b) their editors are bigots who don't really believe trans ppl should exist. 1
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
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He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
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More like "The Epstein Story? Count me in as someone who is in the files now". F that guy. He should absolutely lose his job.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
More like "The Epstein Story? Count me in as someone who is in the files now". F that guy. He should absolutely lose his job.
See thread for context and link to article. Living in deep Miami (far from downtown or the beach,) countless times I've heard people speak admiringly of Pinochet and Franco, and even Hitler. Also, racism is overt and widespread.
Yeah, going to college in New York during the 2016 election while having grown up in Southwest Florida was a major lesson in this because I had to tell well-meaning friends, “No, no, they actually do believe what they’re saying” quite a bit.
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
See thread for context and link to article. Living in deep Miami (far from downtown or the beach,) countless times I've heard people speak admiringly of Pinochet and Franco, and even Hitler. Also, racism is overt and widespread.
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, episode 2: Ari Lamstein: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Friends of the Open Visualization Academy: Ari Lamstein
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December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, episode 2: Ari Lamstein: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Good.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Good.
In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, episode 2: Ari Lamstein: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Friends of the Open Visualization Academy: Ari Lamstein
openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, episode 2: Ari Lamstein: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Las fotografías del reportaje de Vanity Fair sobre el equipo de Trump son material de premio Pulitzer, una maravilla de galería que captura con precisión lo grotesco de esos personajes:
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Las fotografías del reportaje de Vanity Fair sobre el equipo de Trump son material de premio Pulitzer, una maravilla de galería que captura con precisión lo grotesco de esos personajes:
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
There are few politicians that I despise more than Marco Rubio, an utterly mediocre and malicious empty shell of a man. After reading this, my contempt for the guy has increased significantly: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are few politicians that I despise more than Marco Rubio, an utterly mediocre and malicious empty shell of a man. After reading this, my contempt for the guy has increased significantly: www.propublica.org/article/usai...
This is very good:
Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions.
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
what's in a data gap?
The project to redefine transgender data tells us some things about authoritarianism.
buttondown.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This is very good:
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The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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"The government has restricted the collection/publication of data on its initiatives; oversight committees hold few hearings; the immigration agencies’ watchdogs have been dismantled. At this moment in history, the measuring falls to the media" link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0af... @propublica.org
Ours is a time of provably wrong claims, vociferously stated.
link.propublica.net
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"The government has restricted the collection/publication of data on its initiatives; oversight committees hold few hearings; the immigration agencies’ watchdogs have been dismantled. At this moment in history, the measuring falls to the media" link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0af... @propublica.org